Spain to host the 3rd International Conference on GPLv3

The 3rd
international GPLv3 conference will take place on June 22nd & 23rd
in Barcelona, Spain, in a venue soon to be announced. The international
GPLv3 conferences are
part of a year-long public consultation process to update the GNU
General
Public License (GPL) the most used free software license. International conferences have already been held in the
USA and Brazil.Version 2 of the GPL was
released in 1991, and this current revision reflects changes
in the legal and technical environment in which software licenses
operate, and the need to increase protection against new threats such as software patents and Digital Restrictions Management
(DRM).

Like
the current version of the GPL, version 3 will work to guarantee all users of
software distributed under its terms, have the freedom to examine,
share, and modify that software.

The international GPLv3 conferences play an important role in raising
awareness of free software and the work of the Free Software
Foundation. A major goal of these conferences is to get input from
free software users in all parts of the world. The 3rd international GPLv3 conference will encourage scrutiny from lawyers and free software users in Europe.

Confirmed speakers include Richard Stallman, founder and president of
Free Software Foundation (FSF), Eben Moglen, chairman at Software
Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and Georg Greve, President of Free Software
Foundation Europe (FSFE). Expert panelists from all parts of Europe, and from
around the world will lead discussions on licence internationalisation,
DRM, software patents, and adoption of the finished licence.

About the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to
promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and
redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and
use of free (as in freedom) software - particularly the GNU operating
system and its GNU/Linux variants - and free documentation for free
software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and
political issues of freedom in the use of software. Their Web site,
located at www.fsf.org , is an important source
of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support their work can be
made at http://donate.fsf.org. Their
headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.